[Strategic] Putting the horse before the cart
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Tue Jun 8 13:53:32 BST 2010
On 08/06/10 13:36, Richard Weait wrote:
> High Priority
>
> * Additional Web Frontend Capacity
>
> Okay, that sounds good to me. Sounds like it would affect all OSM
> visitors and users. And I would expect that having more capacity is
> good. What's the best way to fix it? Again, the server / admin team
> will know. Does this need bandwidth, processor, disk, or all three?
> Is there enough rack space at UCL for this, or should it include a
> solution at Imperial or (dare I say it again?) in North America? I
> don't know the details. But I know that server / admin team will have
> ideas.
Well this is a point of some debate. Grant has been saying we need this
for some time but I keep saying that the current resources seem to be
doing OK for now.
It certainly isn't the highest priority - the highest priority purchase
is a tile cache server to go in the IC rack.
> So as a strawman, how about if we:
>
> 1) Additional Web Frontend Capacity
> - find out what sever / admin team wants for the additional web
> frontend capacity.
> -- without demanding forms in triplicate or a TPS report. I nominate
> MattA and RichardF to duscuss this with others on the sever / admin
> team.
Not really necessary when pretty much the entire admin team is here
anyway ;-)
> - find out their ideal plan for implementation schedule
When somebody has the money to buy us some new servers ;-)
Tom
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